Džūkste Fairy Tale Museum

The Džūkste Fairy Tale Museum was founded in December 2001, and is hosted in the former building of Lancenieki school, where a teacher, writer, collector of tales and legends, Anss Lerhis-Puškaitis (1859-1903), also call
Džūkste Fairy Tale Museum

The museum is dedicated to A. Lerhis-Puškaitis and Džūkste fairy tales, as well as to preserving the tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Visitors are welcome to listen to Džūkste fairy tales and to share those they have heard, to watch, and to take part in a puppet show, to view exhibitions and to create fairy tale characters.   

A. Lerhis-Puškaitis used tales and legends in his work to inspire the children’s imagination and thinking, and to build a system of ethnic Latvian values. Approximately 6000 tales, collected by A. Lerhis-Puškaitis have been published in a seven volume edition “Latvian Folk Legends and Tales” (1891-1903).

Location
Lancenieku skola, Lancenieki, Džūkstes pagasts, Tukuma novads
Working time

Summer season (April 20 - October 20)

Monday - closed
Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00
Monday 10:00 - 17:00
Monday 10:00 - 17:00
Friday 10:00 - 17:00
Saturday, 10:00 -17:00
Sunday 11:00 -16:00

Winter season (October 21 - April 19)

Monday Closed
Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00
Monday 10:00 - 17:00
Monday 10:00 - 17:00
Friday 10:00 - 17:00
Saturday 11:00 - 16:00
Sunday 11:00 - 16:00

Payment options
Entrance fee:
Students: EUR 1.00
Students: EUR 1.00
Pensioners, people with disabilities: EUR 1.00
Adults: EUR 1.50
Family ticket: 1-2 adults and 2 or more children under 18 years: EUR 3.00

Entrance fees after 17.00 - double payment
Services and facilities
  • Gida pakalpojumi
  • Autostāvvieta
  • Piknika vieta
  • Ugunskura vieta
  • Suvenīri
  • Informācijas punkts
  • Izstādes
  • Aktivitātes bērniem
Contacts
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Languages
RU    LV